The Inducks Licence, version 1.0 Copyright (C) 1999 Inducks Team http://members.xoom.com/bolderbast Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed. This Inducks Licence sets forth the terms under which you may copy and redistribute the data contained in the I.N.D.U.C.K.S. It is based, in spirit and in wording, on the "GNU General Public Licence Version 2" by the Free Software Foundation, to whom the Inducks Team is grateful, but it has been tailored to the fact that we are distributing data rather than executables. It also takes a slightly different position on the subject of modifications, since the Inducks Team's aim is to merge all contributions into a global and universally available database, rather than encouraging fragmentation. The Inducks Licence was not issued by the FSF nor endorsed by them. Preamble The I.N.D.U.C.K.S. (Inducks) is a gigantic cooperative effort to index all the Disney comics ever published in the world. This project is successful thanks to the fact that so many dedicated comics experts have joined forces. Many comics fans had indexed their own collections, but a global database only became a reality once these various contributions could be consolidated together under an integrated corpus, with everything in a compatible format. All the volunteers who contributed to the Inducks gave their contribution for free and the result of these efforts is available to everyone for free, under the conditions set forth below. The Inducks Licence is intended to ensure that the Inducks stays free and that it cannot be taken over and made into a proprietary work. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. INDUCKS LICENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. This Licence applies to the I.N.D.U.C.K.S. (hereinafter "Inducks") and to any work based on it. We shall say "Work" to mean either the Inducks itself or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Inducks or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you". The Inducks does not contain any graphical components. Graphical components accompanying any Inducks representation therefore do not fall under this Inducks Licence. In what follows, "distribution" is to be intended in the widest sense, including but not limited to publishing via books, magazines, comics, CDs and Internet. 1. 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